Despite MSM, Obama News

Not a MSM publication, Human Events reporting on the short stay of Obama's Muslim advisor, who hails from Chicago. Original WSJ here. Today's Sun Times story here (apparently it's all Islamophobia according to CAIR--why does any reputable publication ever quote them? And the Sun Times obfuscates--it's not that Obama is a Muslim--he's not. It's that he has very radical friends and supporters, Christian or otherwise.) Tribune? Former PLO spokesman (when it was classified as a terrorist organization) Rashid Khalidi surfaces in the HE piece:

Obama’s ties to another Muslim activist are seen as troubling. Obama made a presentation at a farewell dinner in 2003 for Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi has close ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization

According to The Case Against Obama, a new book by David Freddoso (published by Regnery), Khalidi’s group -- the Arab American Action Network -- held a fundraiser for Obama in 2000, and the group is now working on an oral history project about the great “catastrophe” of Israel’s founding.

Any one of Barack's associations would sink any other candidate. What is it that keeps Obama afloat? Dishonest and credulous media types? Though the press is apparently getting a little tougher, since he keeps attacking them. Powerline, excerpt from the other day:

Now in fairness to Obama, this exchange followed some pretty aggressive initial questioning from a pushy talk show host. And Obama actually handled himself well during much of the interview. Even so, a political figure who can't explain a controversial vote on key legislation without first attacking the professionalism of the reporter is probably not ready to run for, much less serve as, president. Obama could use more time in the Senate to (a) learn about the legitimate role of the press in this country and/or (b) develop thicker skin.

Obama's problem may be one of temperament. But it's also true that he's spent his adult life in a bubble of likemindedness and adulation. Was he ever forced to argue with conservatives -- or people presenting the conservative viewpoint as devil's advocates -- at the elite academic institutions he's been associated with or on the Southside of Chicago where the terrorist William Ayers and the anti-American bigot Jeremiah Wright pass as mainstream figures? I haven't seen any evidence that he was. We do hear that, as head of the Harvard Law Review (a position he seems to have obtained without being on the road to writing a publishable student note), he listened to the conservative point of view. That's to his credit. But listening when one is in a position of authority is not the same thing as debating.

Do the MSM and Democrat operatives think Americans are stupid and easily led? Barack the cable guy, don't make me laugh. Get 'er done? What has Barack Obama ever done except run for political office? Now we're supposed to elect him based on his competence? (Pay no attention to my liberal record, America.) It didn't work for Dukakis. Guess the Obama as post-partisan glow is fading. And the MSM is barely in the news business these days.

--crossposted at UNC0RRELATED